ABSTRACT
In this way, Western philosophers generally treat faith as a way of arriving at beliefs, as possibly nonrational, and as part of the dichotomy of faith and reason. The texts are inconclusive, so we cannot settle this interpretative disagreement. One advantage of author reading is that it takes Socrates seriously as a religious man and as somebody living in the Greek world so long before the Enlightenment. This seems crucial given that those offering the competing interpretations cited here agree that he was a religious man receiving a sign from a divine source. The belief-based understanding of religion is insidious. Even if we are familiar with the orthodox/orthoprax distinction, those of us who are raised with a belief-based understanding of religion continually fall back into looking at other traditions through that lens.
